When reality is a web of lies and the truth endangers all you hold dear . . .Trust No One.
Secrets lead to betrayal.
Drafted into the nebulous underworld of a secret agent before the ink on her diploma dried, MJ Thornberg survived betrayal and attempted murder at the hands of her trusted partner. Instead of returning to the deadly realm of espionage, she chose to retire to a small Texas town and work as a mechanic while raising her soon-to-be-adopted baby daughter.
Haunted and seeking redemption.
Ben Walker is a man with his own secrets. An agent with MJ’s former employer, Vista Security, Ben is clawing his way out of a downward spiral from a job gone wrong when Vista sends him after MJ, with orders to use the threat of halting her baby’s adoption to ensure her cooperation.
Danger at every turn.
Furious and trusting no one, MJ intends on working the job solo until a sniper’s bullet alters her plans. With no choice but to work with Ben, MJ must confront ghosts from her past, discover truths of her present, and trust that the future she deserves is in her hands to create.
EXCERPT:
“I can’t take no for an answer. Jeff won’t let me. You have to help us find Tasha.”
“And just how do you think you can make me? Hold a gun to my head?”
“Would that work?”
MJ made a rude noise. “What do you think?”
“Didn’t think so.” Ben took a breath and plunged on. “Jeff gave me a better weapon. Angelina.”
MJ’s mouth dropped open, but no sound came out. Her pie plate hit the coffee table with a hard clanking sound that made up for her speechlessness.
“Vista is helping you push the adoption through faster than normal. They will pull back the help, make things more difficult, possibly stop the process al–”
She sprang on him in a flash. Had him by his shirt, jerked him close. He’d known she would. He didn’t defend himself.
“No,” she said in a soft controlled voice, one more deadly with its very control. But he was trained, too, and it would be a tough fight if she followed through. She knew it. He could tell.
He held her gaze and spoke quietly, “I’m only the messenger.”
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